Hello, from a long time cat lover, first time poster.

Thanks for the warm welcomes! We’ve seen a huge turn around in her attitude and demeanor towards us since after the first initial day in the new home. Yesterday, her second day here, she immediately started head butting our hands and foreheads when we woke her up, and played with us all day, even offering a straight-up, happy-to-see-you-tail, and lots and lots of purring. Safe to say our hearts melted immediately. We’re surprised she trusted us so quickly within one day, of course the big house is still intimidating to her, and we’ve been helping her explore, giving her treats, and trying to reassure her that she’s safe as much as possible. The first night she was here she zoomed out of the kennel and immediately hid under one of our bed-side tables which had all my high-heels under it, and yesterday, although she was not as nearly intimidated to explore and hidey, we could definitely tell we needed to set her up some “safe areas” outside of her kennel for her. So we took all my heels from under the bedside table and moved them, putting a few blankets under the table and covering it a bit to make it more “safe feeling”, and she took to it immediately.

Today she seems to be responding well again, and we’re happy to say she’s been eating, drinking, and using the bathroom for urination and bowel movements on the regular, which we literally high-fived over because we were so excited when she pooped. We’ve been trying to make no sudden movements, keeping it slow, and talk to her literally all the time. I’m sure if anyone heard us they’d think we’re mental, but the talking seems to make her ears and tail perk up, so that’s good. We also try and use her name as much as possible.

We’re definitely waiting for the dog meet until probably a few weeks, I’d rather take longer with it than overwhelm her, you know. She seems pretty overwhelmed with the house itself so I don’t want to add to the stress. The dog is usually in his own large crate on a completely different end/side of the house, or in his chair next to it. He won’t follow her, all he does is drink his water when he sees her to display his dominance over his water bowl, even with our old cat he was quite the jealous boy and acted like he didn’t get any attention from us, but that’s him just being his big baby self. He wouldn’t even fit in her crate if he tried, but I definitely wouldn’t let him, and since he really doesn’t have any interest in her I’m happy about that.

She seems to be perfectly healthy and adjusting well, a lot quicker than we expected, the only thing we have an issue with is after she started exploring, under the bed and side table where we made her safe, hidey-area, she started sneezing a bit, especially after using litter. We’re going to make her a vet appointment, one because he needs to meet her and give her a regular check-up, and two because of the sneeze which we’re hoping is just allergies.

Until then we’re continuing to play with and pet her tons, she’s full of purrs and headbutts, so I think she will be quite happy with us at the end of the day. I know we’re already in love with her. [:

Thank you, Katzenjammer! And Dorry looks like an absolute sweetheart. The kitty in my avatar is actually our former cat, Adiele. She was a four year old maine-coon calico, and we lost her to a stroke and related seizures on New Years morning, so that was sad for us. Adiele was actually my boyfriends first cat, and it was really hard on him, but she definitely turned him into a cat person.

So the loss of her was what actually prompted our adoption of this new little girl, who’s name is Luna Dixie. I stil haven’t gotten a good photo of Luna yet, but I definitely will eventually. Here’s the image from the private cat rescue I adopted her from: http://i.imgur.com/NsOk0rC.jpg She looks a lot more intimidated there, but she’s a total lover. And I definitely will join in the cafe, thank you!

Thank you, Joan! Aw, your babies sound so lovely! Luna seems to be making herself right at home, definitely coming out of her shell very quickly. She’s already started following me around, and seems to have a pretty good handling on most of the house. This is my first black cat, surprisingly; she has a little heart/crescent moon on her chest. She’s absolutely gorgeous, but boy is she hard to spot under the bed in the shadows, haha.